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almost like a small pink moon -and its light shone down on Eleria. Then
it spoke to me and told me to mind my own business. I recognized the
voice immediately, since I’ve been listening to it since the beginning of
time.’
‘You’re not serious!’ Dahlaine exclaimed.
‘Very serious, brother dear. It was the voice of Mother Sea, and that
seems to suggest that the whale might have been something other than an
ordinary whale as well, wouldn’t you say?’
‘She’s never done that before,’ Dahlaine said in a troubled voice.
‘You’re being obvious again, Dahlaine,’ Zelana said. ‘I think we’d
better step around her very carefully until we get a better idea of what
she’s doing and why. Mother Sea’s the central force of the whole world,
so let’s stay on the good side of her.’
‘What happened next?’ Dahlaine asked.
‘Eleria had a dream, naturally. Evidently, that was the whole idea. In
some peculiar way, that pearl’s the essence of Mother Sea’s awareness.
Her tides still rise and fall, and her waves wash the shores of Father
Earth, but she’s awake now. I’m almost positive that the pearl, which is
really Mother Sea incarnate, dictated Eleria’s dream, image by image.’
‘Did Eleria tell you about her dream?’
‘Of course she did. Why do you think I’m here?’
‘What did the dream involve?’
‘The world,’ Zelana replied. ‘Eleria saw it when it was still on fire
before the continents separated and before life began. Then she saw the
continents move away from each other and watched living things crawl
up out of Mother Sea. She saw the big lizards roam the world and the
falling star that killed them all. She was aware of us and of the others -
the ones who are asleep now - and somehow she knew about the Vlagh.
She saw the age of ice and then the more recent man-things. As closely as
I can determine, she dreamt all the way from the beginning up until the
day before yesterday.’
‘She managed to dream all of that in one night?’ Dahlaine said
incredulously.
‘She had help, Dahlaine. I’m sure that the pearl was guiding her step
by step. I think we’d better advise our alternates what’s afoot here. Our
cycle’s very nearly reached its conclusion, and our alternates will be
waking soon. We’d better warn them that the crisis we’ve been expecting
since the beginning’s very likely to boil to the top during their cycle.’
‘That’s assuming that it doesn’t come before our cycle’s finished,’
Dahlaine said. ‘I think that we’d all better get together and thrash this out.
Why don’t you go fetch Aracia, and I’ll see if I can run Veltan down. We
need to make some decisions, and we might not have much time.’
‘It shall be as thou hast commanded, my dear, dear brother,’ Zelana
replied with exaggerated formality.
‘Do you have to do that, Zelana?’ he said with a pained sort of
expression.
‘When you’re being obvious, yes. Go get Veltan, Dahlaine, and I’ll see
if I can pry holy Aracia out of that silly temple of hers. Do we want to
meet here?’
‘I think we’d better. It’s more secluded than the other places -except